Fastener for lacing-terminals.



PATENTED APR. 30, 1907.

P. H. STEINIGBR. PA'STENER FOR LAGING TERMINALS.

APPLICATION FILED IBB. 17 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' H FANNY H. STEINIGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 30, 1907.

Application filed February 17,1906. Se ial NO- 301,592.

State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inFasteners for Lacing- Terminals, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to fasteners for lacing terminals, and has for itsobject to provide an improved construction of the same, particularlyadapted for use with gloves, that may be readily adjusted, and willfirmly retain the lacing terminals in their adjusted position. Thisobject I accomplish in the manner and by the means hereinafter describedand claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a glove showing my improved fastener mountedon the lacing in position to be adjusted thereon. Fig. 2 is a similarview showing the fastener adjusted and in engaging position. Fig. 3 isan enlarged perspective view of the fastener. Fig. 4 is a centralsectional view of said fastener.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts in the severalviews.

In the said drawing the reference numeral 1 denotes a glove, having thelacing 2 therein, the terminals of which are engaged with my improvedfastener, presently to be described,

suitable devices, such as ornamental tassels 3,

preventing the removal of said fastener. Said fastener embodies a mainor front plate 4, which may be of ornamental design, as shown, and whichhas fixed to its rear face at one edge at the points 5 a slightlyresilient tion shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, the latter is thenturned over bodily upwardly to the position shown in Fig. 2, whichbrings the outer surface of the main plate 4 outward, and the lacingterminals. are then brought down on each side of said main plate, whichaction jams them in the narrowed portions between said main plate 4 andthe loopplate 6 near the connecting points 5, thus firmly retaining saidlacing terminals in their ad justed position. To release the lacingterminals the operation is reversed, said terminals being first drawnupward to disengage from between plates 4 and 6, and the fastener turnedover downwardly to the position shown in doted lines in Fig. 1, whensaid fastener will be free to slide on the lacing terminals to loosenthe same.

My improved device also provides for taking care of the loose ends ofthe lacing terminals, which I accomplish, when the device is in thefastened position shown in Fig. 2, by looping said ends oppositely andforcing them between the free end of the loop-plate 6 and the main plate4, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. To insure their retention in thisposition I may provide a projection on one of the parts, shown in thisinstance at 8 in Fig. l, past which the ends are forced, and which willretain them against accidental displacement.

\Vhilc I have shown and described my device as applied to the lacingterminals of a glove fastening, it will be understood that the same isapplicable to all forms of lacing terminals, such as in shoes, clothing,and the like.

Havin thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with the terminals of a lacing, a fastening consistingof a main plate and a loop-plate attached together at one edge at aslight angle to each other to form jam openings therebctwcen, saidlacing terminals passing through the aperture in said loop-plate.

2. The combination with the terminals of a lacing, a fasteningconsisting of a main plate, and a loop-plate attached thereto on oneside and at one edge, the two forming In testimony whereof, I havehereunto set am-openings therebetween, sald terminals my hand 1n thepresence of two subscribing belng shdably but permanently engaged withwltnesses.

said loop-plate and adapted to be forced into F ANN Y H. STEIN IGER.said jam-openings to maintain a fixed rela- Vitnesses: tion between saidterminals and said fasten- SIMON STEINIGER,

ing. ELSA STEINIGER

